Watercolor Easter Eggs

The kids have been on Spring Break all week. We’ve been having lots of fun playing. Today, we decided to dye Easter eggs.

For as long as I can remember, I have dyed Easter Eggs with food coloring. It’s simple, cheap, and works tons better than the box dye. If you don’t already know how to do it, here’s how:

Get some boiled eggs, vinegar and food coloring. I used both McCormick and AmeriColor gel food coloring and they both worked incredibly well.Put about 3/4 c boiling water plus 1 Tbsp. vinegar in each color cup. Then, add as much food coloring as you want. I added 10ish drops of the McCormick food coloring and a small squirt of the AmeriColor gel.Then, dip away!

The eggs dye really fast. Most colors took less than a minute to color the eggs.The kids had fun experimenting with different color mixing. If you look very closely you can see the different color swirls in the eggs:We decided to try painting on the eggs with our paint pens. They are one of the kid’s favorite art supplies. They are watercolor paints put in a pen. We bought them for the kids for Christmas. You can find them at Wal-Mart. The colors are a lot more intense than regular water colors. Plus you don’t have to worry about a cup of paint water tipping over.

I was actually really surprised at how cool they turned out:The colors painted on the eggs so well, that we even got the yellow to paint over a dark blue egg:It turned out to be a fun afternoon art project!